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The Day After Nothing

Today is Saturday and according to our Realtor’s original plan we were supposed to close on the house yesterday. The thing is, we still have not been told of an appointment time, worse, we have no firm commitment for even a particular date of closing. Someone has to have dropped the ball and now I’m just praying we will close on the house next week. Drats! Drats! Drats!! I so wanted the extra...

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Patient Hope

I’m not sure if I ever told you this but if so you’re just going to have to hear it again. My kids are THE best. God was so good to Julian and me when He chose these three to be ours. For the last two months we’ve been staying with friends while we attempted to make the state of Texas our new home. Our kids are intimately acquainted with all that a cross-country move entails. They know...

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Tell me…

Where do you live and what’s the thing you like most about it? I’m really interested....

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Flab, Flab go away…

find someone else on whom you’ll stay. or How I got healthy on my summer vacation. It’s been over eight weeks since I had chocolate chip cookie dough, fresh from the oven, still warm and gooey fudge brownies or even a piece of bread. I’ve been staying as far away from white flour, white sugar, and white rice as I possibly can. They aren’t nutritious no matter how you slice...

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Free = good, sometimes

I love the words “drastically reduced” even more than free most of the time. Reduced says, “I have to, have to, have to get rid of it but I believe it has great value so I want you to be willing to pay for it just to show me you feel the same about it and you WILL take care of it.” Free says, “We both know that I should be paying you to get this stuff out of my sight but maybe...

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No Mercy

A few years ago, when my boys were young and MySpace and Facebook were just becoming popular, I signed up for both in order to keep an eye on them. I needed to know how they worked so that I would be able to protect my children online. It wasn’t just about getting all up in their business, I never even got involved in using them. Really, I just made sure I was acquainted enough with the new...

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Short and Sweet

The bank accepted the offer. Praise God! We will be moving soon. I can’t wait… but I guess I have to,...

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What happens when you move away?

You end up missing important moments, like your niece’s wedding. I wish money grew on trees. I’d probably remember to water one of...

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Waiting

I’m not really that good at it. Waiting, that is. It took a day and a half for the bank to counter offer and an hour for us to counter their’s. That was on Friday afternoon just before close of business and so we wait. I’ve managed to convince myself that I don’t care either way now. Whether we get this house or another one it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that we begin...

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House Hunting

Most of my house hunting over the last eleven years has basically taken place on the couch while browsing realtor.com. I’ve dreamed of the day the Lord would be so gracious as to give us our own home again. And while most of it has been just dreaming in those years we’ve also come extremely close to owning again. We did everything possible in our own power to stop renting and to start owning....